Tumblr Post+ Protest

[soc_puppet]

Anyway, yeah, I'll be logging off of Tumblr in a few hours as part of Phase Two of the Post+ Protest. I'm afraid I don't actually expect Tumblr to take Post+ away; a lot of websites are married pretty hard to the Sunk Cost Fallacy, and Tumblr has sunk waaaay too much into Post+ to abandon it without at least a few years of trying to make it work. But I'm sure y'all have already gathered how big a proponent I am of Dreamwidth, and, well, any excuse to get people to check it out!

Official logoff time starts in about 3.25 hours after this post goes up, and lasts for 48 hours. We'll see what happens!

Comments

[soc_puppet]

Yeah, they started rolling it out more thoroughly not long ago. I've got a little "Post+!!!" icon dealy in the drop-down menu for personal account related stuff (followers, drafts, settings, etc).

Honestly, I'd be satisfied (to the extent possible) if Tumblr made absolutely certain to clarify that profiting off of fandom content through Post+ was not allowed, or at least horribly fraught, but I already covered how I'm not expecting them to get rid of it entirely.

[gwydion]

I wish there was a total opt out.

[soc_puppet]

On the plus side, I'm pretty sure you have to actually sign up for Post+, if only because they need some sort of payment information. (And it looks like that information is going through Stripe, so it's not entirely the worst idea in the world, in terms of infosec.) Other than that, I'm thinking Xkit is our best bet.

[gwydion]

I live by xkit.